Data Validation Contracts

Data Validation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Validation over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 597 665
Rank change year-on-year +93 +68 -31
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 75 87 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.17% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 61 119
10th Percentile £325 £363 £300
25th Percentile £389 £425 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £559 £1,005 £588
90th Percentile £638 £1,100 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £398 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -16.32% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile - £27.05 £18.63
25th Percentile £10.42 £30.88 £25.50
Median hourly rate £22.71 £37.50 £32.08
Median % change year-on-year -39.44% +16.90% +60.39%
75th Percentile £41.63 £43.88 £62.29
90th Percentile £53.55 £47.55 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.71 £37.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -39.44% +44.23% +47.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Validation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Validation.

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Validation.

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Validation over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Validation in the UK

Data Validation
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Validation within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +92 60 £480 -16.16% 44
UK excluding London +50 31 £398 -16.32% 26
Work from Home +93 30 £545 -14.51% 15
London +89 28 £520 -19.72% 20
North of England +38 16 £490 -32.41% 4
South East +11 8 £375 -64.36% 7
North West - 7 £398 - 2
Yorkshire +21 6 £505 -36.88% 2
South West +11 5 £441 -7.11% 4
North East +14 3 £500 -23.08%
Midlands +22 2 £405 -4.71% 4
East Midlands - 2 £405 - 3
East of England +8 1 - - 3

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (13.33%) SAS
2 5 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.67%) Apache
3 2 (2.67%) Confluence
3 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.33%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.33%) Smallworld
Applications
1 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.00%) Sketch
3 1 (1.33%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.33%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 4 (5.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.00%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.33%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.00%) Azure
2 13 (17.33%) Power Platform
3 10 (13.33%) AWS
4 7 (9.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (9.33%) GCP
5 5 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (4.00%) Figma
6 3 (4.00%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.00%) Veeva
7 2 (2.67%) Azure Storage
7 2 (2.67%) dbt
7 2 (2.67%) GitHub
7 2 (2.67%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.67%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.67%) SaaS
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.33%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) 2G
1 1 (1.33%) 3G
1 1 (1.33%) 4G
1 1 (1.33%) DWDM
1 1 (1.33%) Internet
1 1 (1.33%) RNC
1 1 (1.33%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (29.33%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (17.33%) Power BI
3 12 (16.00%) SQL Server
4 7 (9.33%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (5.33%) Data Lake
6 4 (5.33%) KDB
7 3 (4.00%) Hadoop
7 3 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.67%) Apache Hive
8 2 (2.67%) Big Data
8 2 (2.67%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.67%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.67%) Metadata
8 2 (2.67%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.33%) Parquet
9 1 (1.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) JIRA
2 6 (8.00%) Git
3 2 (2.67%) Eclipse
3 2 (2.67%) Selenium
4 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.33%) Deequ
4 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.33%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 22 (29.33%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (28.00%) Finance
4 8 (10.67%) Banking
5 5 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (5.33%) Retail
7 3 (4.00%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.67%) Billing
8 2 (2.67%) Front Office
8 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.33%) Dutch Language
9 1 (1.33%) French Language
9 1 (1.33%) Legal
9 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (24.00%) Developer
2 13 (17.33%) Analyst
3 11 (14.67%) Data Engineer
4 7 (9.33%) Consultant
4 7 (9.33%) Data Analyst
5 5 (6.67%) Data Consultant
6 4 (5.33%) Data Manager
6 4 (5.33%) KDB Developer
6 4 (5.33%) React Developer
6 4 (5.33%) Senior
6 4 (5.33%) Tester
7 3 (4.00%) Clinical Data Manager
7 3 (4.00%) Data Migration Analyst
7 3 (4.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
7 3 (4.00%) ETL Developer
7 3 (4.00%) Lead
7 3 (4.00%) Migration Analyst
7 3 (4.00%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.00%) Quality Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.33%) RESTful
2 6 (8.00%) HTML
2 6 (8.00%) PySpark
3 5 (6.67%) CSS
3 5 (6.67%) GraphQL
3 5 (6.67%) gRPC
3 5 (6.67%) JWT
3 5 (6.67%) OAuth
3 5 (6.67%) OpenAPI
3 5 (6.67%) React
3 5 (6.67%) Swagger
4 2 (2.67%) .NET
4 2 (2.67%) BAPI
4 2 (2.67%) JSON
4 2 (2.67%) Node.js
4 2 (2.67%) pytest
4 2 (2.67%) SAP ALE
4 2 (2.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.33%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (10.67%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.33%) Biopharmaceutical
4 3 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (4.00%) NHS
5 2 (2.67%) Blog
5 2 (2.67%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.67%) Replication
6 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.33%) Life Science
6 1 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) Validation
2 32 (42.67%) Data Modelling
3 28 (37.33%) ETL
4 19 (25.33%) Data Integration
4 19 (25.33%) Migration
5 18 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (22.67%) Agile
6 17 (22.67%) Analytics
6 17 (22.67%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (18.67%) Data Analysis
7 14 (18.67%) Data Migration
8 12 (16.00%) Data Cleansing
8 12 (16.00%) Data Engineering
8 12 (16.00%) Data Governance
8 12 (16.00%) Data Management
9 10 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (13.33%) Visualisation
10 8 (10.67%) Computer Science
10 8 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (9.33%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 36 (48.00%) SQL
2 22 (29.33%) Python
3 12 (16.00%) Java
4 9 (12.00%) C#
5 7 (9.33%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.33%) VBA
8 3 (4.00%) C++
8 3 (4.00%) PL/SQL
8 3 (4.00%) R
8 3 (4.00%) T-SQL
8 3 (4.00%) VB
9 2 (2.67%) Bash
9 2 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.33%) ABAP
10 1 (1.33%) Groovy
10 1 (1.33%) Scala
10 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (17.33%) Degree
2 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (5.33%) Master's Degree
2 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.00%) PhD
4 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.67%) MBA
4 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.33%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.33%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.33%) QA
3 5 (6.67%) GDPR
3 5 (6.67%) HIPAA
4 3 (4.00%) CDISC
4 3 (4.00%) Good Clinical Practice
4 3 (4.00%) GxP
4 3 (4.00%) PMO
5 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.00%) Google
3 5 (6.67%) Databricks
3 5 (6.67%) SAP
4 2 (2.67%) CA
4 2 (2.67%) Cloudera
4 2 (2.67%) Oracle
5 1 (1.33%) Ariba
5 1 (1.33%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.33%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.33%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.33%) Informatica
5 1 (1.33%) Mavenir
5 1 (1.33%) Remedy
5 1 (1.33%) Yardi